Murder in the fish tank.

[The Mac]

I have a mystery for you all to solve, the murder of the Neon Tetras.

For a while now I have noticed that every now and again I find a bit of a corpse floating round my tank, I have worked out from what is left and also head counts that something is snacking on my neon tetras, but im not sure who, the list of suspects is as follows, the other Neon’s and Cardinal tetras, the Blue Tetras, Pakistani Loach, Platys, Plec or my number one suspect the Red Tail Black Shark.

What do you all think?

Who do you think committed the crime?

 

[OohFeeshy]

Red tail black shark probably. The others are too small to do much damage, and RTBS can get very aggressive.

 

[jarcher1390]

carnt be any thing other than the rtbs

 

[yvez9]

i find the shark guiltyas charged!!

 

[The Mac]

i find the shark guiltyas charged!!

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The problem is all the evidence is circumstantial not enough to get a conviction, and nobody is talking or willing to come forward as a witness, its all a bit fishy to me

 

[jkrekord]

rtbs are great fish though

 

[andywg]

Could very well be that a disease or infection is knocking off the neons and once dead pretty much every fish in the tank will have a snack on the corpse.

 

[jkrekord]

you no it could be neon tetra diseaese seriously its a real disease if you didnt no good luck with your tank

 

[pseud]

Could very well be that a disease or infection is knocking off the neons and once dead pretty much every fish in the tank will have a snack on the corpse.

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This is my proposition also.

Neon's are pretty fast, and a RTBS will only chase to get them out of the territory. Not like he'd stalk them. I doubt your RTBS has ever even tasted a neon.

 

[@ombomb]

its all a bit fishy to me

I agree that it probably ISN'T the RTBS. If it had a problem with the Tetras, they would all be dead. Yes they can be very aggressive fish, but really only against fish with the same body shape that are in their territory, and Neons don't really fit into that category. Obviously there are some homicidal maniacs out there but the chances are the Neons died becasue they are sensitive little buggers and the other fish had a bit of snack on their bodies

 

[The Mac]

Could very well be that a disease or infection is knocking off the neons and once dead pretty much every fish in the tank will have a snack on the corpse.

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This is my proposition also.

Neon's are pretty fast, and a RTBS will only chase to get them out of the territory. Not like he'd stalk them. I doubt your RTBS has ever even tasted a neon.

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We know he has tasted Neon, we caught him snacking on one , but don’t know if he killed it or not.

Seriously we have been keeping an eye out for disease or infection but haven’t noticed anything, no fading of their colour, no bloating or twisting, no flicking, so we are stumped.

We did catch a fairly large group of Neon’s, Cardinal’s and Blue’s taking chunks out of one of our small Platy’s bless him he lost half his tail and never recovered even though he was moved to a different tank .

We have started to think it is gang related

 

[Firebelle_uk]

Gosh this has reminded me of a murderous event in my dad's fish tank many years ago. In that case the victim was a red tailed shark - a very new and fairly small one that Dad admired for all of about 6 hours. I remebr we had to pop out and when we returned Dadrushed to the tank to see the fish and the evidence was absolutely condeming - they only part of the sharkl visible was it's bright red tail sticking out of the mouth of a guilty looking Blue Acara! Of course little was known of mixing species then, but if there's one firsh that's definitely not on my "to be kept" list it's acaras.